指尖鏈有道词典

censorious

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [senˈsɔː.ri.əs]
  • 美式音标 [sɛnˈsɔriəs, -ˈsor-]
  • 国际音标 [sen'sɔ:riəs]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 挑剔的；受批判的（名詞censoriousness，副詞censoriously）

词根记忆

  • cens(評價) + orious→愛評價他人的→挑剔的
  • 來自censor(vt.檢查，讅查)

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • Oh, dear, what can we say about this monarch that will not sound too censorious?
    哦，天啊，關於這個國王我們應該說什麽才能聽起來不是那麽吹毛求疵呢？
  • But red Toryism may be too morally censorious , and too hostile to big business, to fit the bill.
    但是紅色保守主義也是行不通的，因爲它對國家大財團太敵對，在道德上又對其太吹毛求疵。
  • But the world is so censorious no character escapes.
    但世人就是這麽愛搬弄是非，無人幸免。

    • 權威例句

  • The Chinese and their censorious government, the Communist Party, want to be rich and strong.
    FORBES: Getting to Yes
  • Not that Mr Gay defends the contemporary notion of Victorian values: censorious prudery or embarrassed euphemisms.
    ECONOMIST: Victorian values revisited
  • The backlash was censorious, strict in its views on the family and personal morality, and predominantly suburban.
    ECONOMIST: Lexington

词组短语

    短語

  • censorious s 挑剔的
  • censorious a 受批判的
  • Do not be censorious 不要吹毛求疵
  • Be not censorious 不要吹毛求疵
  • a censorious or denunciatory nature 挑剔或譴責性質

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • often criticizing other people

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you describe someone as censorious, you do not like the way they strongly disapprove of and criticize someone else's behaviour.